On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:17:15 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:47:16PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: [reviews of debian/copyright] > > You know, there is one set of packages that *usually* passes NEW > > pretty fast? Thats because they do something similar to that. They > > (usually, even they have exceptions, but pretty rare) have damn good > > copyright files. (For some reason those packages end in -perl. Must > > be some policy thing i suspect). > What I don't get from your text is: are you aware of the extra reviews > on a per-package basis, or you just noticed that tose packages are > usually OK and then discovered that the reasons are extra reviews? We don't have some formal procedure for reviewing debian/copyright; I guess it's just some kind of "group culture" that we want to produce sound packages which includes correct copyright/licensing information. And REJECTs caused by sloppy work are both embarrassing and time-consuming for all involved parties :) In practice it helps in my opinion * to have some "nit-pickers" in the group who spread this culture; * to have simple packages (with a 3-line debian/rules we can take some more time for getting debian/copyright right :)); * that there are some recurrent pitfalls that appear in several packages again; * for reviews, at least for me, that we mostly use the new copyright format (the structure makes it easier for me to spot problems than some free-form prose); * that (at least parts of) the group works together on IRC where it's easy to just ask "hey, package foo has a weird copyright, could someone else please take a look and give their opinion?" and that we actually do this; * that our upstream authors are usually very responsive when we ask them for clarifications or adding missing pieces, and that also lowers the bar for actually asking. I'm not sure there's some conclusion that I can offer from my experience in the pkg-perl group to others; if any, it might be that a group culture that encourages close cooperation and an endeavour for diligence pays off. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x00F3CFE4, 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: R.E.M.: Star Me Kitten
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